Needles in stacks of needles: finding disease-causal variants in a wealth of genomic data

Nature Reviews Genetics - Tập 12 Số 9 - Trang 628-640 - 2011
Gregory M. Cooper1, Jay Shendure2
1HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, 35806, Alabama, USA
2Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, 98115, Washington, USA

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